Impwa

Name: Impwa
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Zambian
Ingredients: 500g impwa (African garden eggs), quartered; 3 tomatoes, chopped; 1 onion, chopped; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 2 tbsp groundnut (peanut) powder, optional; Salt

Impwa/IM-pwah/

Also known as: Garden Eggs, Zambian Eggplant Relish

About this dish

Small bitter garden eggplants cooked down with tomato and onion into a relish to eat with nshima.

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Ingredients

🍆500g impwa (African garden eggs), quartered

🍅3 tomatoes, chopped

🧅1 onion, chopped

🫗2 tbsp cooking oil

🥜2 tbsp groundnut (peanut) powder, optional

🧂Salt

Method

Serves 2

Soak the cut impwa in salted water for 10 minutes to reduce the bitterness, then drain.

Fry the onion in oil until soft, then add the tomatoes and cook to a thick sauce.

Add the impwa with a little water, cover and simmer for 10–15 minutes until tender.

Stir in the groundnut powder if using, and simmer for 5 minutes more.

Season with salt and serve with nshima.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Impwa, small African eggplants, are grown in village gardens across Zambia and are a common ndiwo (relish) beside nshima, sometimes enriched with groundnut powder.

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